Marilyn MacGruder Barnewall began her career as a journalist with the Wyoming Eagle in Cheyenne. During her 20 year banking career, she wrote extensively for The American Banker, Bank Marketing Magazine, Trust Marketing Magazine, and other major industry publications. The American Bankers Association (ABA) published Barnewall’s Profitable Private Banking: the Complete Blueprint, in 1987. She taught private banking at Colorado University for the ABA and trained private bankers in Singapore.

Sunday, December 03, 2017

SAN FRANCISCO -- OUT OF MY HEART FOREVER

News With Views
By Marilyn M. Barnewall
December 3, 2017https://newswithviews.com/san-francisco-out-of-my-heart-forever/I, for one, will never visit San Francisco
again. I will not even take a flight that will touch down at the San
Francisco airport to change planes. If I did, I’d be supporting the San
Francisco tax base which is used to support criminal illegal aliens.

I’m not just disgusted by the trial of Jose Ines
Garcia Zarate, 45, acquitted of murder and involuntary manslaughter charges, as
well as assault with a deadly weapon, I am sickened by it.

Jurors convicted the Mexican citizen of being a
felon in possession of a firearm, which could bring a three-year
sentence. He admitted to killing Kate Steinle as she and her father
walked along the San Francisco wharf together.

To read the actual
reasons Kate Steinle is dead (including violations by more than one department
of the federal government), go here to
read the lawsuit filed by the Steinles against numerous government departments
whose responsibility it was to keep her safe.

In essence, the City of San Francisco (and the
complicit State of California) have created an unsafe environment for American
citizens so they can provide special privileges for illegal aliens under the
false flag California chooses to call “Justice.”

It used to be a beautiful city. Wells Fargo Bank
was one of my clients during the 1980s and I spent quite a bit of time
there. Wells Fargo was one of the best banks in the country at that
time. Today, they are caught in criminal credit card violations for which
no one goes to prison… a reflection of the attitudes of the federal regulators
and the City of San Francisco where Wells Fargo’s corporate headquarters
resides.

Keep in mind, throughout history evil has always
imploded on itself.

Did you know that 22% of federal prisoners are
suspected illegal immigrants? Do you realize it costs American taxpayer
citizens $87.61 per day (or $31,977.65 per year) to pay for the prison upkeep
of just one criminal? It totals hundreds of billions of dollars… dollars
you work for every day.

From 2010 to 2014, ICE released a 30,558 illegal
criminal aliens from prison. Did you know that after their release 121 of
them were charged with homicide? Sounds like a small number by comparison
to the 30,558… tell that to the families of the 121 who were murdered.

We hear a lot about how special the “Dreamers” are
and how important it is for them to be able to continue their educations in the
United States. “Dreamers” are illegal aliens who go to school under the
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. They are so
grateful to be studying at American universities and colleges, 2,139 DACA
recipients have lost their permits to remain in America due to their criminal
activity.

Hispanics aren’t the only ones tearing our nation
apart.

Black consumers are being told by Black Lives Matter
to buy Christmas gifts only from black-owned businesses. I guess that
means that all whites should not buy from any black business… isn’t the Black
Lives Matter message “Shop by color”? So if you are racially sensitive and
if you’re white, stay out of black communities. Don’t buy anything from
them because Blacks don’t want to do business with you. They want
business from fellow blacks. I’ve always supported blacks supporting
black communities (though not quite like this).

Colin Kaepernick (of the San Francisco football team
– where else?) began the trendy “one knee” stance while the pre-football game
national anthem played. It shows total disregard for our military and the
men and women who have died defending America. It shows total disregard
for the American people who love their country and their flag. Then many
overpaid and under-educated teammates joined him in his protest – and NFL
football ratings have gone down ever since. I will do all I can to help
the trend… down, down, down for the NFL and Roger Goodell, the NFL Commissioner
who handled this fiasco (and others) so badly but thinks he is worth a $50
million per year (plus medical benefits for him and his family) for life.

You can’t make this stuff up!

The men who think a football field is the
appropriate place for political protests won’t really feel the result of their
behavior until it’s time to negotiate their next contract. Until then,
their ability to run with or kick or pass or receive a football and get paid millions
of dollars for doing so makes them feel they are making powerful political
statements. In reality, all they are doing is ruining the game and those
who finance it: the fans – most of whom love their country.

It’s fascinating to watch multi-millionaires
demonstrate because they are victims!

The economy of the old Soviet Union was never strong
and corruption, always present in big governments which must always grow as the
population increases, made the USSR vulnerable to corruption.

Communist China faces the same problem (even after
Mao killed over 65 million people to implement communism… that form of
government stupid American university professors teach their uninformed
students is wonderful; those student become violent in their support of it;
they – and their hero, Bernie Saunders – call it socialism but even Karl Marx
admitted socialism is a high-speed railroad to communism). Stalin killed
40 million Russians to get communism implemented. Doesn’t that sound like
a wonderful form of government?

Under communism the government represents total
power. It is huge and, as we have learned since President Trump began
cleaning the swam, the corruption runs very deep indeed in America’s
theoretically non-communist government.

My use of the word “theoretically” merely means that
too many people still believe they are free and are living in a republic (if
educated) or a democracy (if uneducated). In truth, however, government
considers itself the only important, dominant element of American life. Most of
those who “serve” the people as elected officials consider themselves elites
who reside high above the rest of us in their own mythical world of power and
corruption… a communist attitude.

There is no better example of government gone wild
and out of control than the San Francisco trial of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate for
the murder of Kate Steinle. Zarate was clearly guilty of murder – at the
very least, manslaughter. The comrades of San Francisco found him innocent
and because he has already spent 29 months in confinement he will probably see
little, if any, time behind bars in California.

What happened in San Francisco is a small indication
of the total lack of moral values, the total lack of appreciation of what it
means to be born an American citizen, and shows a lack of appreciation for
citizenship that results in a mindless devaluation of our nation.

For example, the Millennials who flood the streets
and willingly resort to violence if it means preventing a conservative from
speaking an opinion with which they disagree think we should have open
borders. Their university professors haven’t gotten around to telling
them that without borders there is no nation (the professors – men who will
never be recognized for their intelligence – probably don’t know.). One
of the things required to establish a nation is a clear statement of its
borders. In other words, if America has no borders, there is no America.

Gee, you don’t suppose that’s part of the plan, do
you?

The dumbed-down generations (at least two of them…
maybe three) have reached a point in American society where truth has no
value. Without truth there is no freedom, just political correctness
where one group of powerful people can tell the rest of society what they may
and may not think and say because if you disagree with them you are guilty of
hate speech. In Great Britain you can go to jail for hate speech.
In reality, the only hate speech being spewed through society comes from the
mouths of the politically correct and powerful elitists who think themselves
better able to run your life than you are.

It is reminiscent of the old Soviet Union.

According to Gorbachev’s Prime Minister, Nikolai
Ryzhkov, the “moral [nravstennoe] state of the society” in 1985 was its “most
terrifying” feature: “[We] stole from ourselves, took and gave bribes,
lied in the reports, in newspapers, from high podiums, wallowed in our lies,
hung medals on one another. And all of this – from top to bottom and from
bottom to top.”

It sounds like America, 2017, doesn’t it? It
reminds me of the $3 trillion Donald Rumsfeld announced was missing from the
Defense Department in 2001… he didn’t know what had happened to all that money
– but they were looking for it. It was never found… and Rumsfeld made his
statement the day before 9/11/2001 so it got little attention as Americans sat
in disbelief over the loss of over 3,000 fellow citizens.

It also reminds me of Representative Maxine Waters
who just a few days ago told her black audience to remember that Congressman
John Conyers is a friend to women… an icon in the black community. Of
course, Waters hasn’t had a cogent thought in her head for… possibly her entire
life.

As Gorbachev’s Prime Minister, Nikolai Ryzhkov, said just before the
fall of the USSR, “[We] stole from ourselves, took and gave bribes, lied in the
reports, in newspapers, from high podiums, wallowed in our lies, hung medals on
one another.” He could not have defined the actions of Waters (and other
politicians) more successfully had he tried.

We free illegal alien murderers in San Francisco,
while Michigan voters elect John Conyers to office so he can sexually insult
and intimidate women for the 50 years he’s been in Congress. Even
died-in-the-wool liberal Cokie Roberts admitted on television that all women in
Washington knew better than to get on an elevator with Conyers,

We have so many women coming forward to accuse
Senator Al Franken of Minnesota of putting his hands where they do not belong
that it’s hard to keep an accurate count.

Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze made equally
painful comments about lawlessness and corruption dominating the Soviet Union
in its final days. During the winter months of 1984-85, he told Gorbachev
that “Everything is rotten. It has to be changed.”

“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very
strong,” Frantz Fanon said in his 1952 book Black Skin, White Masks (originally
published in French as Peau Noire, Masques Blancs). “When they are
presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot
be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable,
called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core
belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn’t fit
with the core belief.”

If that doesn’t define victims, liberal progressives
and most Millennials, I don’t know what does.

During their final days as a world power, the Soviet
Union allowed cognitive dissonance to rule its better judgment… as so many Americans
are doing in 2017. The handwriting on the wall was pretty clear for
Gorbachev. The Soviet economy was failing. They did none of the necessary
things to save their economy. In 2017, the handwriting on the wall is
pretty clear for the American people.

The economy is failing. The number of closed
retail outlets tripled this year over last. Read
this article. Don’t confuse a climbing stock market with a
successful economy. President Trump is doing all he can to save it, but
he is having to crawl over the body blocks of liberal progressives (both
Republican and Democrat) to do so.

The people and the Congress do none of the necessary
things to save their economy. Why? Go re-read the definition of cognitive
dissonance. That’s why. We have a classic fight going on between fear-motivated
people who want government to take care of them and who willingly pay the price
of lost freedom to get that care (evil), versus those who value freedom and the
self-responsibility it requires (good).

As Eduard Shevardnadze said, “Everything is
rotten. It has to be changed.”

As I would say it, “There is no Rule of Law in
America today.”

No one listened then; no one is listening in America
now. The primary reason? Cognitive dissonance.

Kate Steinle was murdered by her government.
The State of California, the City of San Francisco and the federal government
have one primary responsibility as legitimate governments: Provide for
the safety of citizens. They did not. How legitimate then are they
as governments?

California is so focused on making sure illegal
aliens have access to the benefits people like Kate Steinle worked hard and
paid taxes to provide, they forgot about her safety and the safety of all other
citizens… and tourists. I invite you to join me in avoiding any kind of
California vacation or doing business with any online California-based
businesses.

Why would you want to add to the tax base of a
government that so abuses American citizens?

Such comments as those from Soviet leaders Nikolai
Ryzhkov and Eduard Shevardnadze a mere half-dozen years before the failure of
what Reagan termed “the Evil Empire” should cause chills down the spines of any
American reading the quotes for in many ways our government has become “the
Evil Empire.”

The words spoken by Soviet politicians just before
their fall are a mirror image of this nation’s social and political disorder as
I write these words.

Say a prayer that President Trump will be able to
succeed… and another prayer that the Never Trumpers like Senators Mitch
McConnell (R-KY), Corey Gardner (R-CO), John McCain (R-AZ), Jeff Flake (R-AZ)
and all the others are in the final days of their treasonous service.

You might also want to say a prayer that McConnell
wakens Senators so they begin passing some of the 300 Bills approved and sent
to them by the House of Representatives – laws which have been ignored by
McConnell, McCain, Gardner, Corker, Thune… one of which is Kate’s Law.

About Me

Marilyn MacGruder Barnewall began her career in 1956 as a journalist with the Wyoming Eagle in Cheyenne. During her 20 years (plus) as a banker and bank consultant, she wrote extensively for The American Banker, Bank Marketing Magazine, Trust Marketing Magazine, was U.S. Consulting Editor for Private Banker International (London/Dublin), and other major banking industry publications. Barnewall taught private banking at Colorado University and has authored seven banking books, one dog book, and two works of fiction and one biography.
Barnewall is the former editor of The National Peace Officer Magazine and has written editorials for the Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News and Newsweek, etc. She has written for News With Views, World Net Daily, Canada Free Press, Christian Business Daily, Business Reform, and others. She has been quoted in Time, Forbes, Wall Street Journal and other national and international publications. She can be found in Who's Who in America (2005-10), Who's Who of American Women (2006-10), Who's Who in Finance and Business (2006-10), and Who's Who in the World (2008).